Current Affairs

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the teachers that took place near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute on April 26, 2022. The attack killed three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver.

The death of three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver on Tuesday 26 April at the hands of a woman suicide bomber at the entrance to the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi in Pakistan has raised concerns that China-Pakistan academic collaboration is becoming a target for separatist resistance. The tutors who were killed have been identified as Huang Guiping, the founding director of the Confucius Institute (who was also the deputy director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office of Sichuan Normal University), Ding Mufang, and Chen Sai. Another Chinese teacher, Wang Yuqing, was injured along with three local residents who were taken to a hospital in Karachi.

The suicide attack on the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute was carried out by a woman identified as Shari Baloch. She was a 30-year-old science teacher who had a masters degree in Zoology. She was a member of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group that is fighting for independence for the Balochistan province of Pakistan.